Chicago ¨C One minute Maria was selling tamales from her food cart in Chicago¡¯s West Side. The next, her son said, she was bundled into a van, the latest victim of U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s aggressive crackdown on immigrants.
Maria¡¯s family was left to pick up the pieces, removing her cart, food containers and umbrella before launching a frantic search for the Mexican-born mother of seven who has lived in the United States for two decades, albeit undocumented.
By Saturday morning, 24 hours after her arrest, her family had still learned ¡°nothing¡± about her status from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency conducting aggressive raids in and around the nation¡¯s third largest city.
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